4 characters Idiom and proverb 20 302

Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「植善傾惡」.

Here’s the idiom 「植善傾惡」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It means to cultivate the good and overthrow the evil.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhí shàn qīng è

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jik6 sin6 king1 ok3

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